The phrase "a validated test for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a test that has been confirmed to be effective or reliable for a specific purpose or outcome.
Example: "The researchers developed a validated test for measuring cognitive abilities in children."
Alternatives: "an approved test for" or "a certified test for".
This is not a validated test for depression I've ever come across.
While there was already a validated test for blood doping with someone else's blood, the new test breaks ground because it may be able to detect if an athlete has had a transfusion with his own blood.
NMSS is a validated test for non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD).
Currently, public health infectious disease surveillance requires a priori knowledge of the pathogen of interest, in that there must be a validated test for the pathogen, and it must be included in the laboratory's test portfolio.
The following tools were adapted to assess the prevalence of smoking, alcohol misuse, obesity, physical inactivity and unhealthy diet (risk factors): Stockport Health and Lifestyle Survey [ 18], the "Five Shot Screening Tool": a validated test for detecting hazardous and harmful alcohol use [ 19], and a validated two-item dietary questionnaire [ 20].
The author failed to identify a validated test method for this patient population.
To avoid use of inflated estimates of the fraction of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas that can be prevented by HPV vaccination, we restricted our estimate of HPV attributable risk to recently obtained biopsies on which high quality histological auditioning was performed using a validated test algorithm for the detection of HPV in head and neck tumour samples.
This is a well validated test for a range of populations [ 20].
Intellective functioning was assessed using the Italian version of Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R), a well validated test for the developmental age between 6 and 16.
In 2000, the Enzyme Dust Consortium was formed with the objective to design a validated test method with a protocol (for granule qualification and quality control) to correlate with dust levels in plant.
It may also take an intermediate approach and use a validated test under one or more statutes for some purposes but not others (ICCVAM 1997).
